The Islamic City · event 12 of 15

1258

Baghdad falls. The Mongols destroy the Abbasid capital, and Cairo becomes the undisputed centre of the Islamic world.

The The Islamic City era

  1. 641
  2. 750
  3. 868
  4. 879
  5. 969
  6. 970
  7. 1087
  8. 1168
  9. 1171
  10. 1176
  11. 1250
  12. 1258
  13. 1348
  14. 1356–1363
  15. 1474

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